Associate Director, Data Architecture and Engineering

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Can you lead our Enterprise Data Architecture and Engineering team? We’re seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect who can work through complex data and AI solutions, conceive and deliver elegant, extensible, AI-ready data solutions, lead and mentor data engineers and architects through the delivery of emerging tech in a complex, distributed corporate environment, and work across boundaries to align solution patterns and gain the confidence of domain partners and technology leaders. You will be developing architectural governance and management processes for data and data infrastructure and you’ll be aligning the enterprise data portfolio with business applications, consulting on major systems strategies and implementations.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and recommend architecture changes based on technology and business trends. Specify architecture approach and standards.
• Provide strategic perspective and alignment. Lead data architects and engineers in data governance efforts and architectural reviews, contributing to current methodologies.
• Review architecture strategy to ensure fitness for purpose. Ensure that architecture supports business process requirements
• Consult with business clients, senior technical specialists and other technical architects in all aspects of enabling technologies to meet business needs. Provide expertise on architecture design or improvement, considering the performance impact of the architecture.
• Investigate, research, provide technical advice to the adoption or integration of new technologies and their business impact.
• Identify problems and issues that affect multiple areas and facilitate resolution. Anticipate and evaluate impacts of problem solutions that affect multiple areas of the organization. Lead and coordinate efforts of hardware, network and database architects in application design and implementation. Apply industry standard problem-solving tools and techniques.
• Explore and use alternative approaches or points of view. Participate in determining goals and objectives for projects.
• Foster the development of a common vision, providing clear direction of roles, responsibilities and priorities. Take risks to address difficult issues, standing firm, when necessary, for the betterment of the company, department or process.
•  Thoroughly understand customer impacting requirements. Demonstrate awareness of industry standard processes. Identify opportunities to leverage existing solutions for multiple customers.
• Participate in defining business cases for IT investments. Understand AbbVie’s business processes and how they affect system design across business groups.

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Qualifications

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 9+ years of related work experience with strong understanding of data architecture (both structured and unstructured) or an equivalent combination of education and work experience. Degree in Computer Science or related discipline preferred. Advanced degree preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree with 9 years’ experience; Master’s degree with 8 years’ experience; PhD with 4 years’ experience in a variety of IT roles including technical, application development, business systems and data management.
• At least 3 years managing people and projects. Exposure to a wide variety of technologies and applications.
• Experience designing, building and delivering complex data solutions including AI, Analytics, Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Data Governance, Master Data Management, etc.
• Experience developing and executing technical and business capability roadmaps and strategies
• Experience leading teams to solve complex, cross functional problems
• Demonstrated excellent analytic, judgment and consultative capabilities
• Strong written, visual, and verbal communication skills, including the ability to work with both IT staff and business
• Proven leadership skills

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

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